I’m trying to be helpful and listing some explainer videos recommended by others, sort them by category and link to them. 🙂
Inspired by Patrick Oshaughnessy’s tweet. What is the best explainer video that you’ve ever seen?
All links are to YouTube unless mentioned otherwise. Here’s a YouTube playlist with all the videos. Hope it’s useful!
Science & Tech
- The Science of Fire
- The Fermi Paradox
- But what is a Neural Network?
- How the Apollo Spacecraft works
- The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do
- 4th Dimension – Tesseract, 4th Dimension Made Easy – Carl Sagan
- The Higgs Boson Explained
- Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture
- Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology
- Quantum Entanglement & Spooky Action at a Distance
- Why SpaceX is Making Starlink
- A visual and intuitive understanding of deep learning
- TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time
- how-to-imagine-the-tenth-dimension
- Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?
- What Would Happen If Humans Tried To Land On Jupiter
- Neutron Stars – The Most Extreme Things that are not Black Holes
Economics, Investing & Markets
- How The Economic Machine Works
- Quantitative Easing Explained
- The Stock Market Explained by Vox
- A Brief History of International Trade
- William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour
- Social Security Cards Explained
- How does the stock market work? – Oliver Elfenbaum
Sports & Games
- Jaeger Sports Baseball Throwing Program
- Miyamoto on World 1-1: How Nintendo made Mario’s most iconic level
- Sequelitis – Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X
- MIT Professor Debunks Deflategate
Behavioural
- A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism
- Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgement (Vimeo)
- The best explanation to resilience
- Magic: the Gathering: Twenty Years, Twenty Lessons Learned (Trust me on this!)
- The riddle of experience vs. memory | Daniel Kahneman
- RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
- Mr. Rogers and the Power of Persuasion
- The Rules for Rulers
Misc
- history of japan
- Ancient Greece in 18 minutes
- Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell
- Don’t Talk to the Police
- The Fallen of World War II
- I’m Just a Bill (Schoolhouse Rock!)
- Jackie Chan – How to Do Action Comedy
- Noam Chomsky – The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
- Around The Corner – How Differential Steering Works (1937)
- How to Tie Your Shoes
- Why In-N-Out Isn’t Coming to a City Near You
- Combinations of 52 cards (52 factorial)
- The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can
- P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo
- Feynman: How the train stays on the track
- What is a p-value?
- Richard Feynman. Why.
- 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?
- The Bayesian Trap
